Are axies heavy sleepers?

[andrew]

Okay, maybe just being a paranoid newby but when i came home one of my little guys was hanging out in a floating plant, being a little paranoid I touched him and he didn't move and them i touched him harder, nothing finally he did take off pretty quick thou... Is this normal? Thanks

 

[joan]

Lol, yes, this is normal. Sometimes they won't move for hours, sometimes they swim all night. I think they're not necessarily sleeping, but in a zen-like state. lol. Axolotl Nirvana.

 

[natalie]

Yeah, mine does that alot, sits there zoned out on his plant.

I have pushed him too with no response for a while.

Just have a laugh as its yet another strange thing that these little fellas do!

 

[chris]

I work at a petstore and people always tell me my axies are dead! It gets real old, and almost all of them are grossed out by them.

 

[dot]

Like Joan said, it's normal. When mine were small enough, the smallest used to hang out in the center of a plastic plant I had in the tank. (Now they're big and were uprooting it all the time, so I had to take it out.)